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Was the Court Conned in Citizens United?
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has been had. “A campaign finance system that pairs corporate independent expenditures with effective disclosure has not existed before today,” he confidently...
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Pick a Code, Any Code
In April, Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer weighed in, saying that the Supreme Court already abides by the judicial code set forth for federal judges: Kennedy and Breyer both responded that...
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SCOTUS Ethics Commitment Overdue
On Monday, Common Cause along with ten other national organizations wrote to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, asking that the Court voluntarily adopt the Judicial Code of Conduct. Those with a...
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More is More With SCOTUS Ethics Transparency
A big thank you to Senators Patrick Leahy, Dick Durbin, Al Franken, Richard Blumenthal, and Sheldon Whitehouse for asking the Supreme Court to provide greater transparency about the way it handles...
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Supreme Conflict: A Play in Five Acts (so far)
It reads like a Shakespearean drama–there was even a machete-wielding bad guy! But we all know how tragedies end. “The highest Court shouldn’t have the lowest standards.” Common Cause President Bob...
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Naive and Stupid
Guest post by C.B. Pearson Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) took on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC decision last week saying, “What the Supreme Court did is a combination of arrogance,...
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